The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-24

And when, years ago, they conspired
against me, that opened all Christendom to
me as a field in which to preach the Gospel.
So you may harness your antagonists to
your best interests and compel them to draw
you ON to better work and higher charac-
ter. Suppose, instead of waiting until six
minutes past o'clock this evening, when
the sun will set, you transact this glorious
work of forgiveness before meridian.
Again: We ought not to let the sun go
down on our wrath, because we will sleep
better if we are at peace with everybody.
Insomnia is getting to be one of the most
prevalent of disorders How few people re-
tire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear
through to 6 in the morning. To relieve
this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives,
and choral, and bromide of potassium, and
cocaine and intoxicants are used, but moth
ing is more important than quiet spirit if
we would win somnolence. How is n man
going to sleep when he is in mind pursuing
an enemy! With what nervous twitch he
will start out of dreaml That new plan
for cornering his foe will keep him wide
one, two, three, four. give you an unfail-
ing prescription for wakefulness spend the
evening hours rehearsing your wrongs and
the best way of avenging them. Hold
convention of friends on this subject i'll
your parlor or office at eight or nine o'clock.
Close the evening by writing bitter letter
expressing your sentiments. Take from the
desk or pigeon hole the papers in the
case to refresh your mind with your even
ings meanness Then lie down and wait
for the coming of the day, and it will come
before sleep comes, or your sleep will be a
worried quIescence, and if you take the pre-
caution to lie fiat on your back, a afrightened
nightmare. Why not put a bound to your
animositys Why let your foes come into
the sanctities of your dormitory2 Why let
those sianderers who have already torn your
reputation to pieces or injured your
business, bend over your midnight
pillow and drive from you one
of the greatest blessings that
God can offer-sweet, refreshing, all-invig-
Grating sleep. Why not fence out your
enemies by the golden bars of the sunset9
Why not stand behind the barricade of
evening cloud and say to them, THUS far
and no fartherP' Many man and many a
woman is having the health of body as well
as the health of soul eaten away by ma
levolent spirit l have in time of religious
awakening had persons, night after night,
come into the inquiry room and get no
peace of soul. After awhile | have bluntly
asked her: SIS there not some one against
whom you have hatred that you are not
willing to give up9" After a little confusion
che has slightly whispered, ''Yesn Then l
Sdlu 10 neIs Ou Will ueN6T INA peace
with God as long as you retain that viru-
lence."
A boy in Sparta having stole fox kept
him under his coat and, though the fox was
gnawing his vitals, he submitted to it rather
than expose his misdeed Many a man with
a smiling face has under his jacket an ami
mostly that is gnawing away the strength
of his body and the integrity of his soul.
Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as
possible. There are hundreds of domestic
cirles where that which most is needed is the
spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart, and
sisters apart and parents and children
apart Solomon says a brother offended is
harder to be won than strong city. Are
there not enough sacred memories of your
childhood to bring you together! The rab-
bins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar's
son had such spite against his father that
after he was dead, he had his father burned
to ashes and then put the ashes into four
sacks and tied them to four eagles
necks which flew away in opposite direc-
tions. And there are now domestic antipa-
thies that seem forever to have scattered all
parental memories to the four winds of
heaven. How far the eagles fly with that
sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes
to that family no practical suggestion.
Thomas Carlyle, in his biography of Fred
eric the Great, says the old King was told
Dy UU6 COuIeSSOT ne InuSU De dU peace WlJn
his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven
Then he said to his wife, the Queen: "Write
to your brother after / am dead that l for
give him" Rolof, the confessor, said:
Her majesty had better write him imme-
diately." NO" said the king, after am
dead that will be safer" So he let the sun
Of his earthly existence go down upon his
wrath
Again: We ought not to allow the sun set
hafA f%R. AaIx ,,1a hf.
might not live to see another day. And
what if we should be ushered into the pres
ence Of our Maker with a grudge upon our
soul? The majority of people depart this
life in the night Between eleven o'clock
p. m. and three O'clock a. IN. there is some
thing in the atmosphere which relaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul, and
most of people enter the next world through
the shadows of this world. Perhaps God
may have arranged it in that way so as to
make the contrast the more glorious. l
have seen sunshiny days in this world that
must have been almost like the radiance of
heaven But as most people leave the earth
between sundown and sunrise, they quit this
world at its darkest, and heaven, always
bright, will be the brighter for that con-
trast Out of blackness into irradiation.
Shall we then leap over the roSeate bank of
sunset into the favorite hunting ground of
disease and death, carrying our animosities
with us! Who would want 10 confront his
God, against whom we have all done meaner
things than anybody has ever done against
us, carrying old grudges? How can we ex-
pect His forgiveness for the greater when
we are not willing to forgive others the
dess Napoleon was encouraged to under
take the crossing OF the Alps because Charlie
magne had previously crossed them. And
all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the
bleeding footsteps of Him who conquered
through suffering, and we ought to be will
ing to follow. On the night of our de
parture from this life into the next, our one
plea will have to be for mercy, and 1t will
have to be offered in the presence of Him
who has said: "If you forgive not men their
trespasses neither will your heavenly Father
forgive your trespasseS.n What a sorry
plight if we stand there hating this one, and
hating that one, and wishing this one a
damage, and wishing some one else ca
lamity, and we ourselves needing for
giveness for ten thousand times ten
thousand obliquities of heart and
life. When our last hour comes,
we want it to find us all right. Hardly
anything affects Ine so much III the uncov-
ering of ancient Pompeii as the account of
the soldier who, after the city had for
many centuries been covered with the ashes
and scorie of Vesuvius was found stand
ing in his place on guard, hand on spear and
helmet on head. Others fed at the awful
submergement, but the explorer, seventeen
hundred years after, found the body of that
brave fellow in right position. And it will
be a grand thing ii, when our last moment
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